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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">CSSMWG and CSTSWG colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I have just uploaded the updated draft of the Functional Resources Reference Model Tech Note to the CWE at URL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://cwe.ccsds.org/css/docs/CSS%20Area/CWE%20Private/Functional%20Resources%20and%20Service%20Components/FunctionalResourcesRefModel_TechNote-TN-0.13-180330.docx">https://cwe.ccsds.org/css/docs/CSS%20Area/CWE%20Private/Functional%20Resources%20and%20Service%20Components/FunctionalResourcesRefModel_TechNote-TN-0.13-180330.docx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As many of you know, this Tech Note had not been updated since the summer of 2016, and so there was quite a bit of work done to bring it up to date
with current ideas and understandings. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In summary, the updated Tech Note:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Updates functional resource definitions to reflect current concepts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" align="left" style="margin-left:9.25pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Replaces “Abstract Service Component/Service Component” concepts with the more-lightweight “Functional Resource strata/Functional Resource Set” concepts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" align="left" style="margin-left:9.25pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Consolidates several highly-redundant “views” of the same material so that – to the greatest extent possible – all of the information about any given aspect of an FR is available in one
place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" align="left" style="margin-left:9.25pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Deletes the detailed Service Agreement/ Configuration Profile sections, which are either redundant to, and in some cases contradicted, current concepts. The current Service Agreement/ Configuration
Profile concepts are instead now documented in the <i>Requirements for Simple Configuration Profiles and Service Agreements</i> Technical Note.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" align="left" style="margin-left:9.25pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Points to the SANA Functional Resource Registry for specific OID assignments and parameter/event/ directive definitions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">There are still many sections of the tech note that need to be fleshed out, but this draft achieves the primary goal of not presenting material that is
known to be out of date, or presented in terms of outdated concepts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I plan to present an overview of the Tech Note at the Gaithersburg meeting. Hope to see you all there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:0in;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:0in;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:0in;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">John<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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